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Environments in Science Fiction: Essays on Alternative Spaces
| Author: | Susan M. Bernardo |
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McFarland & Company, 2014 |
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| Book Type: | Non-Fiction |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
The all-new essays in this book respond to the question, How do spaces in science fiction, both built and unbuilt, help shape the relationships among humans, other animals and their shared environments? Spaces, as well as a sense of place or belonging, play major roles in many science fiction works. This book focuses especially on depictions of the future that include, but move beyond, dystopias and offer us ways to imagine reinventing ourselves and our perspectives; especially our links to and views of new environments.
There are ecocritical texts that deal with space/place and science fiction criticism that deals with dystopias but there is no other collection that focuses on the intersection of the two.
Contents:
- 1 - Introduction (Environments in Science Fiction: Essays on Alternative Spaces) - essay by uncredited
- 10 - Heterotopian Possibilities in Science Fictions by Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett, Samuel Delany and Ursula K. Le Guin - essay by Lauren J. Lacey
- 28 - Acceptance of the Marginalized in Marge Piery's He, She, It and Melissa Scott's Trouble and Her Friends - essay by Melanie A. Marotta
- 46 - Anathem's Flows of Power: State Space and Nomadology on a Cloistered Planet - essay by Jonathan P. Lewis
- 64 - Karel Capek's War with the Newts: Deterritorializing Land and Language - essay by Adam Lawrence
- 83 - Mary Shelley's Literary Laboratory: Frankenstein and the Emergence of the Modern Laboratory in Nineteenth-Century Europe - essay by Matthew Hadley
- 101 - Ecotopian London: Morris's Geography of Conservation - essay by Margaret S. Kennedy
- 120 - Underworlds of Despair and Hope in Cormac McCarthy's The Road - essay by Justin T. Noetzel
- 137 - The Silence of the Subaltern: The Rejection of History and Language in Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome - essay by Shayani Bhattacharya
- 154 - A case of Terraphilia: Longing for Place and Community in Philip K Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - essay by Susan M. Bernardo
- 171 - Discursive Transgressions and Ideological Negotiations: From Orwell's 1984 to Butler's Parable of the Sower - essay by Keith Elphick
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